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by sjwalter 5y ago
And here to me, it seems very obvious that vaccinating children is utter madness. Children are not at risk of covid.
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It's best broken down by group, so here's just one example that I think is irrefutable about these being unsafe. If you've ever been pregnant or had a pregnant wife, you'd know that the list of medications which they can
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by sjwalter 5y ago
You and GP both have spherical cow ideas about how GHGs impact the climate. Yes, we can create an ideal lab "climate" and demonstrate some GHGs cause warming. The global climate is much, much more complicated. What is the impact o
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by sjwalter 5y ago
So after watching that, you think Trump was NOT speaking off the cuff (during a 2.5 hour press Q&A he was doing daily at that point, versus a very adversarial press), you think he WAS NOT describing the UV therapy I linked to above? He
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Link?
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by sjwalter 5y ago
PhDs in general may have a very minor elevation in status compared to other social groups. There are many, many PhDs, many of them working shitty jobs outside their fields. Think outside STEM, wherein generations of poor saps were sold on t
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by sjwalter 5y ago
This is absolutely false. Trump spoke about experimental covid therapeutics that involve shining UV lights inside patients' bodies, and these therapeutics are still purportedly under development and showing promising results to this ve
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by sjwalter 5y ago
> How did those arguments one day suddenly stop being bad faith arguments? I know you're asking this to demonstrate, but I'll answer anyways, because it's obvious: The elite who have very effectively captured the press, bi
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by sjwalter 5y ago
One thing Heather Heying talks about with some frequency is the bias in science towards "Big Science", that is, expensive science with complicated studies and huge funding requirements and expensive machinery. These are the things
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Researchers and scientists are absolutely not elites. However, they almost exclusively rely on the ruling class for their funding, for their platforms, for their careers, and thus they become de facto toadies of the elite. Just go see how w
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Your statement that all, for e.g., global warming skeptics are bad-faith shows you don't have a scientific mindset yourself. I live near glacier national park. In the 1990s, some climate model predicted the eponymous glacier would be g
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Lying to people in some kind of psychological game to manipulate their feelings in the way you're describing is despicable and anyone participating willfully in such bullshit deserves zero respect. Many scientists and doctors out there
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Everyone knows about "regulatory capture", the mechanism via which regulators who are supposed to work for the people become captured by the elite few who control the organizations they ostensibly regulate. But what I think most p
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Do you mean people who question the vaccine at all are "something else completely"? Seems strange to be called "anti-vax" and, presumably, "anti-science" for questioning the logic in mass vaccinating with an ex
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Comparing the MMR requirement for public school to taking experimental vaccines with vastly worse safety profile being a requirement to engage meaningfully in public life at all is a gigantic stretch. I don't know why people deceive th
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by sjwalter 5y ago
> this is pretty much what most health authorities did on most theories about COVID I guess we're living in alternate realities. The world I'm living in, the biggest celebrity doctor in the USA has repeatedly lied about natural
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Americans have been largely informed by mass media and they believe covid is much more deadly than it actually is. The same mass media that has elected to make discussing a plethora of immunity-building strategies (e.g., vitamin d, losing w
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by sjwalter 5y ago
There's a difference between "not killing them" and "protecting them". Especially during this pandemic when so much low-hanging fruit has been intentionally left on the table--for instance, if "protecting peopl
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I don't see it as moral relativism. We're talking about an individual making their own health choice. Not to mention, the "safe" and "effective" vaccines, according to all available data, are nothing like what
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I did mean paternalism, thank you for the correction. I agree with you that nudging can certainly be a tool to realize outcomes. I seem to have a disagreement with you in that it seems obvious to me that governments across the world have ze
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by sjwalter 5y ago
The goal of a meaningfully-lead life is not to lengthen it as much as possible. The goal of the government is not to minimize the number of deaths at any cost.
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I think the point of view that nearly half of your fellow citizens aren't capable of making good choices is pretty silly. I think sane citizens supporting patriarchal rulers, especially when those rulers have proven themselves basicall
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Dick Thaler, who won a Nobel prize in econ, wrote a book called Nudge (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(book for more info), which I'd bet good money Fauci and the entire public policy elite have read and
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I'm in a similar situation but Ive got kids and a wife. They add a tonne of purpose and meaning. My side business is a small farm. Great side effect of that is all the jobs on the farm are kid friendly. Spending all my days with my lit
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Work hard to get your lady onboard. Step one is to find an outdoor activity you can progressively gain sill in, e.g., dirtbiking. Soon buying 80 acres in the sticks will become something she needs!
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by sjwalter 5y ago
My town of 800 here in Montana has literally zero building codes. Almost zero zoning laws. If I want to split my property into little 5 acre ranchettes and build houses on 'em, I can, no permits or approvals or anything needed. Freedom
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I live in a town in rural Montana that has fiber to the home. Population is 800.
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Making large life decisions based on your own personal GHG emissions is living as though you are already dead. I moved out to the country. Bought a big diesel. Started a farm. My GHGs went way up. And yet, my lifestyle change has zero impac
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Shatner's "Has Been" album is a masterpiece.
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Are you serious? Nobody's talking about illegal content. It's all just content that is inconvenient to some establishment figure or other.

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